Resource Exhaustion The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package ntp  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN12-NTP-1555554
  • published13 Jan 2017
  • disclosed13 Jan 2017

Introduced: 13 Jan 2017

CVE-2016-9310  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Debian security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Debian:12.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ntp package and not the ntp package as distributed by Debian.

The control mode (mode 6) functionality in ntpd in NTP before 4.2.8p9 allows remote attackers to set or unset traps via a crafted control mode packet.